Bomb the 'base

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Database vendors compete with one another by taking pot shots, often ignoring customers' requirements. Danny Bradbury reports on the battle of the biggest, best and most brutal

LOOK at a database vendors' activities in the press and you will see a worrying trend. Companies such as Oracle, Sybase and Informix are keen to take pot shots at each other, slating rivals' perfor...

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